Africans in America - This incredible PBS site has a wealth of material on the African American experience in America, including the forced migration of Africans to the present-day United States before the 20th century. Images and primary sources make this site a must-see for students and teachers.
The website of the National Civil Rights Museum has an interactive tour of the museum, focusing on major events of the African American experience from Nat Turner to Martin Luther King, Jr. Students can click through discussion topics in order to get to the events of the 1950s and 1960s.
Civil Rights Movement - This site from Spartacus Encyclopedia has a fine collection of biographical sketches of major Civil Rights leaders as well as general overviews of the major events of the movement. Many of the biographical sketches include primary source materials about each individual.
The African American Odyssey from the Library of Congress also has a section on the Civil Rights Era. The site contains a multitude of primary source documents and images related to the push for equality in the 20th century.
Alabama Mosaic: A Portal for Alabama History http://www.alabamamosaic.org
Alabama Mosaic is a free full-text document and image database developed for student presentations and classroom presentation about Alabama history. This site was established by the Network of Alabama Academic Libraries and is hosted by Auburn University Libraries.
National Park Service http://www.nps.gov/parks.html
Explore all of the U.S. national parks, seashores, monuments, and other U.S. National Park Service sites. You can search by name, geographic area, or topic, such as “Early Explorers” or “Civil Rights.”
**Historic Video Clips**
The National Archives and History released a large number of historical 1930s and 1940s US news clips and videos covering World War II, the US Space program, early footage of Native American activities and Boulder Dam. Also includes other news shorts made by the Department of the Interior. Google has digitized the films and the diverse collection can be accessed via Google Video, as well as the National Archives web site.
Digital History
An amazing website complete with full-textbook entries and animations. Covers a broad spectrum of history.
Civil Rights Movement
The most important achievements of African-American civil rights movements have been the post-Civil War constitutional amendments that abolished slavery and established the citizenship status of blacks and the judicial decisions and legislation based on these amendments, notably the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision of 1954, the B>Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Moreover, these legal changes greatly affected the opportunities available to women, nonblack minorities, disabled individuals, and other victims of discrimination. http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_017100_civilrightsm.htm
Don't Study History-- Do History!
All students, regardless of grade level, have the ability to identify important historical questions and to piece together the past out of its surviving fragments. Doing history requires each of us to become a historical detective or investigator. Only in this way can one develop a genuine mastery of the past. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/do_history/index.cfm
StoryCorps, http://www.storycorps.net, presents short autobiographical narratives: for example, a chilling recollection of a WW II vet who, upon just returning to the USA from the war, walks the capital with pride and discovers he is not welcome in the segregated movie theaters of D.C.: http://www.storycorps.net/listen/?p=105.
http://www.withoutsanctuary.org/ Website featuring photographs and descriptions from the book Without Sanctuary by Hilton Als and James Allen, with postcards of lynchings in America.
www.journeyforthesoul.com JoAnne Bland's website
http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/ great new digital pictures along with historical information from the Alabama Archives! These pictures are free to use for educational purposes.
http://www.riversofchange.org/
Website Martha helped to create based on the Civil Rights Movement
http://www.teachersdomain.org/
Digital library on the Civil Rights movement includes archival news footage, primary sources, and interview segments that capture the voices, images, events, and rsistance that defined the times.**TodayInHistory**
Welcome to TodayInHistory. Search: January, February, March, April, May ... Add TodayInHistory to your site! Click Here. Copyright © 2001-2008 Net3Media.com ...
This Day in **History** 1940: FDR nominated for unprecedented third term
Learn what happened on This Day in History at History.com.
Great Songs: http://www.lost.fm/
Our Documents: http://www.ourdocuments.gov/index.php?flash=true&
**Famous Trials** - UMKC School of Law - Prof. Douglas **Linder**
This site contains accounts, maps, photos, transcript excerpts and other materials relating to over 56 famous trials, from Socrates to the Scopes to OJ ...
**SHUTTLESWORTH v**. **BIRMINGHAM** - FindLaw | Cases and Codes
SHUTTLESWORTH v. BIRMINGHAM, 373 U.S. 262 (1963). 373 U.S. 262. SHUTTLESWORTH ET AL. v. CITY OF BIRMINGHAM. CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF ALABAMA. ...
Rosa Parks Interview
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/pagegen/galleryachieve.html
As children learn about people who made a difference, they can read and hear a real interview with Rosa Parks. This is an excellent resource with photos, audio, and video to help students learn all about this Civil Rights heroine. You'll find Rosa in the "Hall of Courage." Once at her entry, click on the scales of justice to go to the full presentation.
Africans in America - This incredible PBS site has a wealth of material on the African American experience in America, including the forced migration of Africans to the present-day United States before the 20th century. Images and primary sources make this site a must-see for students and teachers.
The website of the National Civil Rights Museum has an interactive tour of the museum, focusing on major events of the African American experience from Nat Turner to Martin Luther King, Jr. Students can click through discussion topics in order to get to the events of the 1950s and 1960s.
Civil Rights Movement - This site from Spartacus Encyclopedia has a fine collection of biographical sketches of major Civil Rights leaders as well as general overviews of the major events of the movement. Many of the biographical sketches include primary source materials about each individual.
The African American Odyssey from the Library of Congress also has a section on the Civil Rights Era. The site contains a multitude of primary source documents and images related to the push for equality in the 20th century.
Alabama Mosaic: A Portal for Alabama History
http://www.alabamamosaic.org
Alabama Mosaic is a free full-text document and image database developed for student presentations and classroom presentation about Alabama history. This site was established by the Network of Alabama Academic Libraries and is hosted by Auburn University Libraries.
National Park Service
http://www.nps.gov/parks.html
Explore all of the U.S. national parks, seashores, monuments, and other U.S. National Park Service sites. You can search by name, geographic area, or topic, such as “Early Explorers” or “Civil Rights.”
**Historic Video Clips**
The National Archives and History released a large number of historical 1930s and 1940s US news clips and videos covering World War II, the US Space program, early footage of Native American activities and Boulder Dam. Also includes other news shorts made by the Department of the Interior. Google has digitized the films and the diverse collection can be accessed via Google Video, as well as the National Archives web site.
An amazing website complete with full-textbook entries and animations. Covers a broad spectrum of history.
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/resource_guides/default.cfm
Bill of Rights
Table of the first 10 ammendments.
http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_009501_billofrights.htm
Civil Rights Movement
The most important achievements of African-American civil rights movements have been the post-Civil War constitutional amendments that abolished slavery and established the citizenship status of blacks and the judicial decisions and legislation based on these amendments, notably the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision of 1954, the B>Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Moreover, these legal changes greatly affected the opportunities available to women, nonblack minorities, disabled individuals, and other victims of discrimination.
http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_017100_civilrightsm.htm
Andrew Jackson and the Trail of Tears
http://www.historicaldocuments.com/indianremovalact.htm
Don't Study History-- Do History!
All students, regardless of grade level, have the ability to identify important historical questions and to piece together the past out of its surviving fragments. Doing history requires each of us to become a historical detective or investigator. Only in this way can one develop a genuine mastery of the past.
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/do_history/index.cfm
Important Speeches
Download historical speeches.
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/speeches/speeches3.cfm
USAF Museum
Has images and information from pre-flight to today.
http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/history/preww1/preww1.htm
Bibliographies of Famous Monarchs
http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95aug/napoleon.html#other
"Civil Rights Photographer Spider Martin: His Life and legacy," http://www.prx.org/pieces/14091 (nine + minutes)
"Black Belt Poverty," http://www.prx.org/pieces/15567 (7 mins.; African-American life in current-day Selma)
"Sam Cooke: Bring It On Home to Me," an hour-long radio doc.: http://www.prx.org/pieces/7208
StoryCorps, http://www.storycorps.net, presents short autobiographical narratives: for example, a chilling recollection of a WW II vet who, upon just returning to the USA from the war, walks the capital with pride and discovers he is not welcome in the segregated movie theaters of D.C.: http://www.storycorps.net/listen/?p=105.